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…a user passes the undocumented --nomultiline option to ag. Default behavior with a regex query is https://github.com/ggreer/the_silver_searcher/blob/master/sr...

comment by ggreer · 2016-08-25 · in Why GNU grep is fast (2010)

…Really? Am I misunderstanding this code that very much appears to search line by line? https://github.com/ggreer/the_silver_searcher/blob/master/sr... GNU grep never does "throw line into buffer and then search it." GNU grep just searches…

comment by burntsushi · 2016-08-25 · in Why GNU grep is fast (2010)

…various numbers of threads change performance. (The default is for ag to use #CPUs-1 workers.) 1. https://github.com/ggreer/the_silver_searcher

comment by ggreer · 2016-08-24 · in Why GNU grep is fast (2010)

…2. http://geoff.greer.fm/2012/09/07/the-silver-searcher-adding-... 3. https://github.com/ggreer/the_silver_searcher/blob/7d52078cb...

comment by ggreer · 2016-08-24 · in Why GNU grep is fast (2010)

For fast grep, consider ag https://github.com/ggreer/the_silver_searcher

comment by hossbeast · 2016-08-24 · in Why GNU grep is fast (2010)

…a regex. Setting to LANG to C would also probably make it faster. [0] http://beyondgrep.com/ [1] https://github.com/ggreer/the_silver_searcher

comment by 0xmohit · 2016-08-24 · in Why GNU grep is fast (2010)

…this is amazing. Elevate your command line game: autojump https://github.com/wting/autojump ag https://github.com/ggreer/the_silver_searcher Use zsh and put this in .zshrc https://gist.github.com/chx/f9509cb2db6595be334ca2404fac8a91 Now…

comment by chx · 2016-08-12 · in Ask HN: What are the cool life hacks for Developer?

…fan of this software. Link because the name makes it hard to search for: http://geoff.greer.fm/ag/ https://github.com/ggreer/the_silver_searcher

comment by walrus · 2016-06-29 · in Ask HN: Examples of reliable software you enjoy using

…are not recognized properly. The matcher that git uses cannot be included due to licensing (see https://github.com/ggreer/the_silver_searcher/pull/614 ). Does seem like there is hope, as a BSD licensed version exists. My fingers are…

comment by RasmusWL · 2016-06-13 · in Show HN: Tag – instantly jump to your ag matches

If you haven't tried https://github.com/ggreer/the_silver_searcher yet you're missing out The progression is grep with a ton of flags (or even find | xargs grep) -> ack -> ag. ag is faster than ack, automatically understands .gitignore,…

comment by x0x0 · 2016-06-13 · in Show HN: Tag – instantly jump to your ag matches

For anyone else confused about what an "ag" match is: https://github.com/ggreer/the_silver_searcher (Ag = Chemical symbol for silver)

comment by whatnotests · 2016-06-13 · in Show HN: Tag – instantly jump to your ag matches

…files to give more relevant results). Might be worth a try on Windows as well? You can find ag in https://github.com/ggreer/the_silver_searcher

comment by lorenzhs · 2016-02-12 · in Ask HN: Any drawbacks to Sublime Text 3 update?

…[2] in the mix [3] for faster searching/grepping. [1]: https://github.com/ctrlpvim/ctrlp.vim [2]: https://github.com/ggreer/the_silver_searcher [3]: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/18285751/use-ag-in-ctrlp-...

comment by spystath · 2016-01-17 · in Vimmers, you don't need NerdTree

…direction with the features proposed in this letter. I hope they take this letter seriously. 1. https://github.com/ggreer/the_silver_searcher 2. User accuses ag of hard-locking his computer: https://github.com/ggreer/the_silver_searcher/iss…

comment by ggreer · 2016-01-14 · in Dear GitHub

…there's a summary in the GitHub README.[1] I've also written a few blog posts on the subject.[2] 1. https://github.com/ggreer/the_silver_searcher#how-is-it-so-f... 2. http://geoff.greer.fm/ag/#related-posts

comment by ggreer · 2016-01-13 · in Ack is designed as a replacement for 99% of the uses of grep

The Silver Searcher, or ag: https://github.com/ggreer/the_silver_searcher Designed as a replacement for all of the use cases of Ack. Is even faster.

comment by _yy · 2016-01-13 · in Ack is designed as a replacement for 99% of the uses of grep

…bad enough, this would make it even harder. My "refactoring tool" of choice is grep (or rather ag, https://github.com/ggreer/the_silver_searcher ), with choice #3 you can't just grep for an identifier anymore.

comment by reinhardt · 2015-12-13 · in Pybind11 – Seamless operability between C++11 and Python

…lines, but you can use the .agingore file to ignore *.min.js, node_modules, and other patterns. https://github.com/ggreer/the_silver_searcher/wiki/Advanced-...

comment by lancefisher · 2015-11-05 · in Sift: Grep on steroids

…that grep is often the bottleneck for data pipeline tasks like you describe. The silver searcher ( https://github.com/ggreer/the_silver_searcher ) is, in my experience, about 10x faster than grep for tasks like pulling out fields from json…

comment by gerner · 2015-10-11 · in How to Download a List of All Registered Domain Names

…So don't feel intimidated. Once you learn those bits of historical trivia, you'll be fine. 1. https://github.com/ggreer/the_silver_searcher 2. http://hentenaar.com/dont-learn-c-the-wrong-way

comment by ggreer · 2015-09-02 · in C Programming Guidelines

…like to think I'm pretty good. You may even use some of the stuff I've written, such as ag[1]. 1. https://github.com/ggreer/the_silver_searcher

comment by ggreer · 2015-08-15 · in Ask HN: Resources on secure coding in C?

https://github.com/ggreer/the_silver_searcher

comment by bpicolo · 2015-05-21 · in Show HN: Nip – Use JavaScript instead of awk, sed, or grep

…"find strings in files, especially code files", I've become a big fan of ag, "the silver searcher": https://github.com/ggreer/the_silver_searcher In addition to all the tricks applied by GNU grep (such as Boyer-Moore), it also splits work…

comment by jmcphers · 2015-03-06 · in Why GNU grep is fast (2010)

…to the Silver Searcher [0], I'm surprised it wasn't mentioned at all since they're similar. [0] https://github.com/ggreer/the_silver_searcher

comment by spain · 2015-01-28 · in Hound: A Fast Code Search Tool

How is hound better than ag [1]? [1] https://github.com/ggreer/the_silver_searcher

comment by quanticle · 2015-01-28 · in Hound: A Fast Code Search Tool

GitHub link for those who don't know about it: https://github.com/ggreer/the_silver_searcher/ I built ag for searching code. It can be (ab)used for other stuff, but the defaults are optimized for a developer searching a codebase. Also,…

comment by ggreer · 2015-01-18 · in Command-line tools can be faster than your Hadoop cluster

Because we now have [ag]( https://github.com/ggreer/the_silver_searcher ), which is similar to ack, but much faster

comment by chingjun · 2014-12-22 · in Grab – simple but very fast grep

> Are there any benchmarks of this vs ag ( https://github.com/ggreer/the_silver_searcher )? Ask, and ggreer ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8781374 ) shall give (within 10 minutes). :-)

comment by JadeNB · 2014-12-22 · in Grab – simple but very fast grep

…does hurt performance. Still, I enable it by default in ag. I think the tradeoff is worthwhile. 1. https://github.com/ggreer/the_silver_searcher Edit: The mutex locking change was so straightforward that I submitted a PR:…

comment by ggreer · 2014-12-21 · in Grab – simple but very fast grep

Are there any benchmarks of this vs ag ( https://github.com/ggreer/the_silver_searcher )? Some of the optimizations are similar (mmap and pcre_study), while others are opposed (ag uses pthreads, grab claims disk I/O is the bottleneck and…

comment by Scaevolus · 2014-12-21 · in Grab – simple but very fast grep

…lines of code. Almost always, that time is best spent building on top of existing software. 1. https://github.com/ggreer/the_silver_searcher

comment by ggreer · 2014-11-22 · in Never Reinventing the Wheel Is Anticompetitive

…Vim can't catch up. NeoVim looks promising, since it fixes Vim's architectural problems. 1. https://github.com/ggreer/the_silver_searcher/ 2. http://geoff.greer.fm/2011/12/27/the-silver-searcher-better-...

comment by ggreer · 2014-11-02 · in Vim After 11 Years (2013)

did now https://github.com/ggreer/the_silver_searcher/issues/483 (though it took me a while to figure out a more precise issue title than "--max-count is taunting me")

comment by unhammer · 2014-08-28 · in Useful Unix commands for exploring data

ag. I use this tool between 50 and 100 times a day. https://github.com/ggreer/the_silver_searcher

comment by Mizza · 2014-07-19 · in Ask HN: Little hacks that make your life easier?

…a second. [0] https://github.com/Shougo/unite.vim [1] https://github.com/Shougo/vimfiler.vim [2] https://github.com/ggreer/the_silver_searcher

comment by JasuM · 2014-07-05 · in Ask HN: What are your essential tools you wish you had discovered sooner?

…available on a target platform, I stick them them in a util.h/util.c, wrapped in #ifndefs. Like so: https://github.com/ggreer/the_silver_searcher/commit/a43dc87...

comment by ggreer · 2014-06-19 · in Debian is switching back to GLIBC

…I'll add that. With regards to search_stream() in search.c... all I can say is that I'm sorry: https://github.com/ggreer/the_silver_searcher/blob/master/sr... I built ag for myself; both as a tool and to improve my skills profiling,…

comment by ggreer · 2014-05-07 · in Ack is a grep-like tool, optimised for programmers

…it can be installed with any OS package manager (brew, apt, yum). [1] http://rak.rubyforge.org [2] https://github.com/ggreer/the_silver_searcher

comment by foz · 2014-05-07 · in Ack is a grep-like tool, optimised for programmers

…with the decision to print 10000 character long lines mean a lot of search results are useless. [0] https://github.com/ggreer/the_silver_searcher/issues/367 for example

comment by i_s · 2014-05-07 · in Ack is a grep-like tool, optimised for programmers

I thought we were done with this already? https://github.com/ggreer/the_silver_searcher

comment by fdsary · 2014-05-07 · in Ack is a grep-like tool, optimised for programmers

…with ag is that it appears to be broken on even moderately larger files where ack works just fine: https://github.com/ggreer/the_silver_searcher/issues/384

comment by ihodes · 2014-05-07 · in Ack is a grep-like tool, optimised for programmers

…a real world use case. [1]: http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/108471/no-output-usi... [2]: https://github.com/ggreer/the_silver_searcher

comment by djeikyb · 2014-05-07 · in Ack is a grep-like tool, optimised for programmers

It's also worth checking out The Silver Searcher: https://github.com/ggreer/the_silver_searcher

comment by pie · 2014-05-07 · in Ack is a grep-like tool, optimised for programmers

…to install an additional less-standard package... I personally find it worth the installation. [0]: https://github.com/ggreer/the_silver_searcher

comment by euank · 2014-04-09 · in Using Git Grep

…issues) are standardized across projects. Hosting on GitHub really does benefit everyone. 1. https://github.com/ggreer/the_silver_searcher

comment by ggreer · 2014-03-17 · in Self-hosted Git Server

…all these options, but the warnings helped me discover bugs that had been lurking for years. 1. https://github.com/ggreer/the_silver_searcher 2. http://clang-analyzer.llvm.org/scan-build.html 3. http://clang.llvm.org/docs/ClangFormat.html

comment by ggreer · 2014-03-10 · in What Are Your GCC Flags?

…time on, I always install ag. The integration with Emacs provided by ag.el[2] is awesome too! [1] https://github.com/ggreer/the_silver_searcher#how-is-it-so-f... [2] https://github.com/Wilfred/ag.el

comment by michaelsbradley · 2013-11-28 · in Why GNU grep is fast (2010)

…:( To be honest, I mostly used those pages to satisfy my own vanity. My C project ( https://github.com/ggreer/the_silver_searcher ) just beat Arduino ( https://github.com/arduino/Arduino ) and was gunning for mruby (…

comment by ggreer · 2013-08-13 · in Explore what is Trending on GitHub

A similar post popped up a couple weeks ago, and one comment suggested https://github.com/ggreer/the_silver_searcher . I was using ack at the time, but I'm really liking ag as I've found to be quite a bit faster. The one thing I wish it…

comment by michaelmior · 2013-07-20 · in Beyond grep: ack, a code search tool for programmers

I use the silver searcher: https://github.com/ggreer/the_silver_searcher

comment by otikik · 2013-07-10 · in Grep too slow? Use git-grep